The earthwork itself is gone, levelled at some point after it was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1923, and what remains is less a monument than a faint biological memory pressed into the ground.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically built between roughly the sixth and twelfth centuries. They generally consisted of a circular bank and ditch surrounding a family's dwelling and ancillary structures, and many thousands of them survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation. This one in Ballycullane sits in low-lying marshy terrain, which is itself somewhat unusual; most ringforts occupy drier, more elevated ground. The 1923 Ordnance Survey map recorded it as a circular enclosure of approximately twenty metres in diameter. By the time Denis Power compiled the site record, uploaded in August 2011, the earthwork had been entirely levelled. What remained was a ghost outline: an oval patch measuring roughly twenty-four metres north to south and twenty-two metres east to west, detectable only because the soil within the former enclosure sits fractionally higher and drier than the surrounding marshy pasture, encouraging a subtly different growth of grass.

There is no formal access to the site, and nothing announces its presence from the road. The field is rough marshy pasture, and the outline is best observed from a distance in the right light and season. Late spring or early summer, when surrounding vegetation is growing actively, tends to sharpen the contrast between the slightly drier circle of taller grass and the wetter ground around it. Those who do find it are essentially reading a landscape that has been absorbing and retaining the faint imprint of human occupation for well over a thousand years, visible now only as a differential in drainage and plant growth.